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And since you are constantly repeating that you proposed a law to allow each
party to reject judges alternately, in order that every one may see that you
could not contrive even to do right without committing some crime or other,
I ask you whether, after a just law had been proposed at the beginning of
your magistracy, and after you had also proposed several others, you were
waiting till Caius Antonius was prosecuted before Cnaeus Lentulus
Clodianus?1 And after a prosecution was instituted against him,
did you not immediately pass a law against him, “Whoever was
prosecuted after the proposal of your law,” in order that a man of
consular rank—unhappy man!—might be deprived by just
that moment of time, of the benefit and equitable provisions of your law?
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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